Musician Beatie Wolfe has uploaded her latest album onto a pack of cards that listeners tap on a phone to play each song.
Each card in the eight-track "album deck" is embedded with a near field communication (NFC) chip that allows listeners to access a song per card when tapped against a device, using technology similar to a city travel card or Apple Pay.

"I fell in love with albums as a kid and saw opening up a physical record as a tangible gateway into the world of the album," Wolfe told Dezeen.
"I like that it brings back the tangibility, the story, the artwork and a sense of ceremony to the experience of listening to a record," she explained.
"But at the same time it presents a new way to experience music, so that it feels different and magical. In this sense, it encourages you to go deep and sit down with an album as an art form again," she continued.
Wolfe worked together with eight international designers to make unique graphics for each of the eight cards based on a black and gold foil colour-scheme ? a reference to a gold mylar-wrapped space chamber installation she created for the Victoria and Albert Museum last year.
Erik Spiekermann, Marian Bantjes, Astrid Stavro, Lucienne Roberts, Rafael Prieto, Sean Adams, Yuma Naito and design studio Atlas were tasked with creating graphics for each card based on their visual response to an assigned song.
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